Gaetz came on Tucker Carlson and attempted to get in front of the allegations, and claimed that a specific DOJ employee had been attempting to extort him. And implied that the DOJ and FBI may have leaked the investigation to the NYT in order to bury the investigation.
Relatively quickly, team Blue reacted by trying to embarrass him in regards to the interview:
Nowadays I assume any Republican that gets this level of heat is probably on our side. Everyone else is either a RINO or playing games to keep from being exposed.
pRETTY MUCH.